I’m so sorry to hear this. I was thrilled with your blog and shared your posts widely. I’m certainly not a “power” but I didn’t see anything wrong with your posts and commentary. I hope to see you back soon.

This bugs me, but I’m not surprised. In my academic universe, there’s been so many boundaries dropped because of Facebook – All of a sudden administrators, the PTA president, parents, and other teachers are your “friends.” It does make it hard to speak your mind, which you do so eloquently here.

This does suck. My wife is in a gov’t position and sometimes finds her personal twitter postings being censored for the same reason. Still, I’ve enjoyed your blog immensely up until now and look forward to more in the future.

I hope you can come back. This is a quality blog with frequent posts, interesting information and thoughts. I would be sad if you stopped posting.

If your boss is like my former university administration boss, (s)he probably had a difficult time even typing in a URL or performing a search to find out about this crazy “blog” thingy. Just say something scary like “Twitter!” at them and they’ll get scared and distracted and run away and forget they ever read a “blog.”

This sucks indeed. I guess you work in one of those states where you work at the pleasure of the employer and can be dismissed, essentially, for any reason at all.

I live in a province like that, but fortunately I am much, much meaner than you and people know damn well that if they push me to censor myself or stop blogging I’ll go online and do something that will make national news. I had a boss, now ex-boss, who tried to get me to tone raincoaster down so much it wouldn’t offend anyone, so it wouldn’t hurt HIS reputation. Let us just say that it was not successful. Fortunately, it’s easier to do those things when A) blogging is what you actually DO for a living and B) it’s an extra job rather than the only job.

I think I’ve held out commenting for so long because I was hoping this was actually not true, and the joke would be revealed shortly. This now looks to be no joke.

Your reasons for blogging anonymously are unknown to me, but I accepted them. Still, it occurs to me that there is something seriously wrong when a university employee (I’m assuming) must fear retribution from her (I think I’m right on this one) employer should they see the contents of this oft-acerbic but certainly not slanderous or inciteful blog. I guess the bill of rights applies only to legislators – not deans!

Really late dropping by here, but hope you come back! Geez why did someone feel the need to tattle on you? Some people… If you have to change the name to go incognito, be sure to let me know the new one.

I keep checking back to see if you’ve started blogging again and am always sad to see the note about suspending the blog. I’m am academic in the humanities who doesn’t typically read a lot of science but I read your blog regularly and learned a lot from it. I hope that you’ll be back. Your knowledge and wit are missed.

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